Erode in a sentence as a verb

And my bet is that it will erode confidence.

Intrinsic motivation is your "deep satisfaction", and you are right that rewards erode it.

Things like this erode trust not just in the particular institution in question but of all institutions in our society.

Those norms don't hold up in court, and they erode a little bit every time someone like Pincus only thinks about what they can get away with instead of what's right.

In particular, the inability for Oracle to see anyone other than themselves leads to decisions that don't just erode trust, they destroy it beyond all repair.

The internet didn't erode that, bad city planning and work-centered, geographically unrooted lifestyles did that.

Note that this alludes to the latest technique being used to erode privacy: the idea that "metadata" is somehow distinct and less deserving of protection than [other stuff].

This is bogus, and a slight of hand meant to further erode privacy while giving Facebook an argument to fall back on other than "it's in our interest to post everything you do into our stream.

Even companies that stay privately held and turn a profit year over year end up in many ways being a lifestyle company; Often resulting in stagnation and then slowly erode from the inside.

It offers limited separation of concerns in terms of content, presentation and behaviour, yet the promotion of web components seems determined to erode that separation even further.

"Influencers" who liked Google Reader, now jilted, are going to use their magic influence beam to halt the growth of Android, to erode the dominance of Google in search, and prevent the regulatory approval of self-driving cars?Google has quite a few heavy responsibilities on their hands.

Erode definitions

verb

become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"

See also: gnaw

verb

remove soil or rock; "Rain eroded the terraces"

See also: fret